Australia's Daniel Ricciardo has made the humiliating admittance that helium eked retired conscionable 4 laps with "good pace" during the Turkish Grand Prix.
Less than a period aft breaking a three-year drought arsenic helium won the Italian Grand Prix, Ricciardo plummeted to his second-lowest decorativeness of the 2021 satellite championship, taking 13th aft starting past owed to a alteration of powerfulness unit.
The bedewed conditions astatine Istanbul Park saw each but 2 of the drivers – Alpine's Esteban Ocon and Aston Martin's Sebastian Vettel – usage the aforesaid strategy, sticking with intermediates for the entirety of the contention and pitting once.
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Ricciardo lamented his deficiency of speedy laps and attributed his struggles to troublesome tyres.
"I deliberation we had possibly 4 laps successful the contention wherever we had bully pace, but the remainder was hard," Ricciardo said.
"In the opening we struggled a batch with beforehand grip, truthful it was truly hard to enactment adjacent to the others, and past we pitted for a caller tyre."
Ricciardo was the archetypal to container erstwhile helium headed to the pits connected thigh 22, sitting 16th.
And portion helium closed to wrong a 2nd of the points, challenging Aston Martin's Lance Stroll for 10th, helium was overtaken precocious by Alfa Romeo brace Antonio Giovinazzi and Kimi Raikkonen, knocking him down to his 13th-placed finish.
"After (the tyre change) I didn't person large rear grip to commencement and was struggling, but aft a portion it came good," Ricciardo said.
"We had astir apt 4 bully laps successful that stint wherever I could consciousness similar I could truly propulsion connected the tyre, which was what I was looking for. Of the full race, that was the positive.
"I got a spot excited due to the fact that I thought possibly it volition conscionable support getting amended and better, but it lasted 4 laps and past the rear dropped distant again, truthful the past 10 laps were a spot painful, conscionable trying to bent on."
Ocon was the lone operator to implicit the contention without stopping, becoming the archetypal to bash truthful since Finland's Mika Salo successful his Tyrell car astatine Monaco successful 1997.
Vettel, connected the contrary, was the lone operator to experimentation with slicks.
But the four-time satellite champion lasted conscionable 1 thigh connected mediums, returning to intermediates connected thigh 39 aft failing to power his car successful the bedewed conditions.
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"Obviously, we were warring for the points and that strategy was our champion chance, but it was conscionable truly unpredictable," Ricciardo said of the determination to instrumentality with intermediates and pit once.
"I cognize others went longer, with 1 going the full contention connected 1 set, but astatine the extremity I saw my tyres and they were connected their past legs."
Ricciardo's teammate, 21-year-old Briton Lando Norris, finished seventh.
The youngster had execute superbly astatine the Russian Grand Prix conscionable a fortnight earlier, collecting rod and starring the contention until spinning retired connected slicks late, dropping to a seventh-placed finish.
Team main Andreas Seidl pointed retired that McLaren's car wasn't suited to circuits similar Turkey's Istanbul Park owed to agelong corners.
"As we person seen already respective times this year, similar successful Zandvoort (at the Dutch Grand Prix), we conflict connected these benignant of tracks astatine the moment," Seidl said.
"That's besides the quality we are having connected our broadside compared to the teams successful beforehand of america that tin propulsion it disconnected astatine each benignant of racetrack."
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